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Stream: Hard Mix, “I’ve Got Them”

The best way to finish off Hard Mix’s "I've Got Them" is to load right into the nextthreesongs on his SoundCloud page, which publicly archive the 21-year-old artist's practice on the cello, an instrument he's been learning for about a week. "I've Got Them" already dances between drum machine and acoustic percussion (acoustic-seeming at least, whether or not he's really just playing a computer keyboard), and following up with unvarnished, Garageband-recorded solo instrument practice really drives homes the organic quality that makes Hard Mix's music so compelling. "I've Got Them" originally premiered in a mix Hard Mix did for SiriusXM Chill, which you can download here.